How to get complete month name from DateTime

Question

What is the proper way to get the complete name of month of a DateTime object?
e.g. January, December.

I am currently using:

DateTime.Now.ToString("MMMMMMMMMMMMM");

I know it's not the correct way to do it.

user_8936505 · Answer

If you receive "MMMM" as a response, probably you are getting the month and then converting it to a string of defined format.

DateTime.Now.Month.ToString("MMMM")

will output "MMMM"

DateTime.Now.ToString("MMMM")

will output the month name

user_13893134 · Answer

Debug.writeline(Format(Now, "dd MMMM yyyy"))

user_1016026 · Answer

You can use the CultureInfo from System.Globalization to get that data, based on the current culture that is being used.

_ = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(DateTime.Now.Month)

Or, use InvariantCulture to also get the English name.

_ = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(DateTime.Now.Month);